On 05/14/2008 11:42 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I'm having trouble updating Etch:
I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its
just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something.
I'm on dialup. How to prevent absolute timeouts but allow (encourage)
aptitude to re-issue requests.
Sometimes I get gpg errors.
Last time, I get "Bizarre Error: file size not what the server
reported".
I'm using the same mirror I always have: ftp3.nrc.ca
I'll keep trying.
Doug.
Perhaps you can use a slightly different procedure since your dialup is
having problems. You can use "apt-get --print-uris upgrade" to get a
list of URLs to download, and you can use wget to get the actual files.
After the files MD5 sums are checked (how?), they can be placed in
/var/cache/apt/archives. Wget can be told to retry and retry; it can
also be told to continue failed downloads.
Think of this as untested pseudocode for the first part of the process:
mkdir /tmp/getem && ch /tmp/getem
sudo apt-get --print-uris upgrade > getem.list
wget --input-file=getem.list --tries=100 --continue
Also, although this is probably not an option in your case, I often use
apt-zip to help me update two computers that are not connected to the
Internet.
Good luck.
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